>>.. that a modal desktop form disables the menu completely, including - and most importantly - the Edit pad. A firm step, nonetheless. I'll keep investigating if there is a way around this.
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>That's what modal means. :)
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>Limit the use of modal forms to a minimum is the only way to circumvent the problem.

Regular modal forms do not deactivate the main menu, they just disable most of the bars. Desktop modal forms, on the contrary, disable the menu.

I'm talking of MDI applications. Modal forms are already kept to a minimum. What I'm looking for is a way to use the VFP native dockable capabilities to give users an additional tool to arrange all the (modeless) forms they want to be left open. It seems to be what I need, except for the integration with modal forms.